It was an afternoon last fall when a number of Taliban fighters stormed a building in Kabul and arrested several women's rights activists.
by the Taliban are Narges Sadat, a women’s rights defender; civil society activist Fardin Fedayee; author and activist Zekria Asoli; and Afghan-French journalist Mortaza Behboudi. Former Afghan lawmaker Qais Khan Wakili and journalist Muhammad Yar Majroh are also in prison, according to the human rights group.
“I believe that to stand up against this brutality, we should accept prison, torture and threat," she said.For the woman who used to be a human rights activist and participate in different human rights related gatherings freely, it’s now usually too risky to go out and meet her colleagues. The situation is very hard and painful for women in Afghanistan, she said, adding, "All we can do is to resist until the Taliban acknowledge us and give us our rights."
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